News from category Africa
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Limited release? The government denies it holds relief aid back from opposition supporters
ADDIS ABABA, 7 June 2010 (IRIN) – After harvesting just 50kg of grain last year from his tiny plot in …
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Ban lifted
KINASEROM, 10 June 2010 (IRIN) – The Chad government has lifted a ban on the export of fish from Lake Chad, acknowledging the damage done to the local fishing industry. “We …
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Long distances to health centres and lack of transport make it hard for mothers to access treatment for their malnourished children (file photo)
DAKAR, 7 June 2010 (IRIN) – A lack of transport, …
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Positive test result from the first HIV testing campaign on Lake Chad’s island of Kinaserom in May 2010
LAKE CHAD, 9 June 2010 (IRIN) – Health authorities in Chad are considering how …
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Men draw water from a deep well in Zinder. They must make tough decisions as to how to divide the scarce resource between cattle, people and crops
ZINDER, 10 June 2010 (IRIN) …
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Melkae Brhanat Tesfay Gebremariam lost two of his children in the famine in 1984
ABREHA WE ATSEBEHA, 9 June 2010 (IRIN) – “We will be self-sufficient,” said Gebremichael Giday, chairman of Abreha we …
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Develop a diverse supply of local foods
JOHANNESBURG, 9 June 2010 (IRIN) – Diversify food sources; go local, suggests renowned agriculturalist and development expert Hans Herren in the latest news publication by the …
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Men in Mali’s Dogon country, including a village chief, are taking on a greater role in promoting exclusive breastfeeding and other practices for better child nutrition
BORO, 8 June 2010 (IRIN) – Men …
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The ICC is conducting investigations in the DRC, Uganda, CAR, Kenya and Sudan, and has issued 13 arrest warrants for eight cases (file photo)
KAMPALA, 10 June 2010 (IRIN) – The International …
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“We don’t have to bury our heads in the sand like an ostrich”
NAIROBI, 10 June 2010 (PlusNews) – In Somalia’s conservative Muslim society it is extremely rare for someone living with HIV …
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The ICC is conducting investigations in the DRC, Uganda, CAR, Kenya and Sudan, and has issued 13 arrest warrants for eight cases (file photo)
KAMPALA, 10 June 2010 (IRIN) – The International …
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Federico Addiechi, Head of FIFA Corporate Social Responsibility
JOHANNESBURG, 10 June 2010 (PlusNews) – South African AIDS organisations have issued a statement lambasting FIFA, the world soccer body, for ignoring their requests to distribute …
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Northern Ennedi region, capital of Fada
N’DJAMENA, 8 June 2010 (IRIN) – BET, the acronym for the three northern regions of Chad – Borkou, Ennedi and Tibesti – …
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Men in Mali’s Dogon country, including a village chief, are taking on a greater role in promoting exclusive breastfeeding and other practices for better child nutrition
BORO, 8 June 2010 (IRIN) – Men …
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A combination of flooding and fighting has led to the displacement of thousands of people in the central regions of Hiiraan and Galgadud – file photo
NAIROBI, 8 June 2010 (IRIN) – Renewed …
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Long distances to health centres and lack of transport make it hard for mothers to access treatment for their malnourished children (file photo)
DAKAR, 7 June 2010 (IRIN) – A lack of transport, …
